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Recording Multicellular Behavior in Myxococcus xanthus Biofilms using Time-lapse Microcinematography
Published on: August 6, 2010
Identification and characterization of the Myxococcus xanthus argE gene
1Section of Microbiology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California at Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA.
Journal of Bacteriology
|November 26, 1998
Abstract:
The chromosomal acetylornithine deacetylase (argE) gene of Myxococcus xanthus was identified via homology to acetylornithine deacetylases from other bacterial species. A mutant carrying a disruption in argE was unable to grow on minimal media lacking supplemental arginine and formed fruiting bodies and spores in response to arginine starvation at high cell density.

